Speaker Cable: Please Try This Experiment ?

[Ropeburn]

On occasions like this I find it hard not to become all philosophical and ponder about "reality" being merely a simulation our brain creates, only loosely based on sensory input, or at times none at all.

 

[mhardy6647]

On occasions like this I find it hard not to become all philosophical and ponder about "reality" being merely a simulation our brain creates, only loosely based on sensory input, or at times none at all.

As I recently noted on another forum, I am in fact a disembodied cerebrum floating in a vat of augmented isotonic saline, due to an unfortunate incident involving a high voltage DC power supply and a damp basement floor... but I digress.

 

[Ropeburn]

As I recently noted on another forum, I am in fact a disembodied cerebrum floating in a vat of augmented isotonic saline, due to an unfortunate incident involving a high voltage DC power supply and a damp basement floor... but I digress.

The scary part is, you wouldn't know if it was true.

 

[mhardy6647]

The scary part is, you wouldn't know if it was true.

Egg-zackly!

 

[egellings]

No audiophile statement is complete without the wife noticing.

...from the kitchen.

 

[marin.weigel]

Some call it capacitance.

Not really, since more widely spacing conductors raises the inductance and lowers the capacitance of the resulting circuit.
And at the relatively low impedances of a louspeaker connection, typical involved cable capacitances don't create a sufficiently attenuating low pass in the audible range, anyway.

 

[jmdesignz2]

Not really, since more widely spacing conductors raises the inductance and lowers the capacitance of the resulting circuit.
And at the relatively low impedances of a louspeaker connection, typical involved cable capacitances don't create a sufficiently attenuating low pass in the audible range, anyway.

I’d be happy to send these to Amir for testing if I can find them in my attic lol

Do not level match. The point is to see if there’s any difference

 

[JPA]

As I recently noted on another forum, I am in fact a disembodied cerebrum floating in a vat of augmented isotonic saline, due to an unfortunate incident involving a high voltage DC power supply and a damp basement floor... but I digress.

Oooh, are you a Triskelion?

 

[G|force]

I’d be happy to send these to Amir for testing if I can find them in my attic lol

How big is your attic?

 

[Ropeburn]

How big is your attic?

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Average amount of spare cables every single one of us has (1% pictured):

Good luck finding the one in the huge box. Or was it in one of the other three huge boxes? Who knows...

 

[Gitfiddle]

Good luck finding the one in the huge box. Or was it in one of the other three huge boxes? Who knows...

I'm going to spend my retirement untangling cables in the storage shed.

 

[guy48065]

Curious about the science behind this

I’ve tried this myself and noticed a huge difference. Not subtle at all.

ABX? How about wife DGAF but noticed the difference immediately

She was totally unaware of what I had done and couldn’t care less

But she walked in and said is your stereo broken?

Take 10 feet of 12awg solid copper bare wire. Insert into 10 mm clear polyethylene tubing. Use that as speaker wire and compare to normal 12 awg stranded copper speaker wire.

The solid copper sounds like shit

I forget which amp I used , was either the DNA mono blocks or a Bryston 4B SST

Speakers were Aerial 10t v2

I wonder if any objectivist anywhere ever bought a set of cables based on excellent bench tests and inserted them in his system to find... they sound like shit.
Of course he would conclude it was his deep-ingrained bias that led to that initial impression so they would remain. Impressing nobody, ever.

 

[Ropeburn]

I'm going to spend my retirement untangling cables in the storage shed.

Brotip: get big rolls of velcro as binders. Worth their weight in gold when making neat rolls out of spaghetti piles.

 

[Gitfiddle]

Brotip: get big rolls of velcro as binders. Worth their weight in gold when making neat rolls out of spaghetti piles.

Right now I have a 100 pack of velcro cable ties. I need so much more. I'll likely take you up on getting rolls in bulk. This stuff is even useful for gardening.

 

[Ropeburn]

Right now I have a 100 pack of velcro cable ties. I need so much more. I'll likely take you up on getting rolls in bulk. This stuff is even useful for gardening.

You know how it is. Ready cut ones are always either too small or needlessly big. Cut from the rolls as you need it.

 

[Peluvius]

When my wife wears wire in her ears the sound is better. I will suggest she stick them into a poly tube and get back to you....

 

[sceptical1]

Why are we waiting until post #38 before threads like this are locked?

 

[Beave]

As I recently noted on another forum, I am in fact a disembodied cerebrum floating in a vat of augmented isotonic saline, due to an unfortunate incident involving a high voltage DC power supply and a damp basement floor... but I digress.

I think I saw you

 

[tengiz]

It’s obvious - solid copper without silver coating → skin effect. And since the only true audiophile way to run class D is without the output filter, those beautiful 300–400 kHz switching swings will be brutally attenuated at the speaker terminals.

You want me to try 3m of bare wire? How am I supposed to lay these without risking a short? Are you serious?

Each conductor on its own set of ceramic risers?

 

[Keith_W]

Why are we waiting until post #38 before threads like this are locked?

Because nobody has reported it. I just pushed the "report" button. IMO nothing of value will come from this thread.